Just in time for All Saints!

Saints of the Season A compilation article by Alice Gunther Alice is the featured speaker of the 2008 Family-Centered Learning conference. Guess what we’re making this week? ...

Gratuitous baby pics

A lot of family read this blog and of course everyone wants to see the baby. I took these pictures today. She’s almost 11 months.   watching...

How You Live

Hat tip to Donna. Great...

Will you pray?

Will you pray for my RCIA group? I truly love this ministry and I doubt there are few as rewarding. But conversion can be difficult and frankly, sometimes quite messy. There can be a lot of struggles. Family issues, marriage issues and a real grappling with the truth and coming to terms with it. In many ways it’s beautiful to watch it all unfold and we (the RCIA team) try our best to help them through the...

The very best of friends

send you surprise packages . . . of chocolate! really good chocolate! On a day when you have a major headache and it’s dreary and rainy and well, you just need chocolate. How did she know?? She knew because she’s a mom and a friend. A truly good friend . . . even without the chocolate. Thanks ME – you made my...

Afternoon tea

Every so often I go wild – cleaning that is. You know what I mean. The all out “Oh my gosh how did this get so bad? We are never letting it get like this again!” kind of cleaning. Usually that’s spring and fall for me. Except although it’s fall now it doesn’t feel like it. It feels like an endless summer or at the very least that we have been moved farther south on the map...

State fairs and me having a blond moment. :-)

Often times I will read about people entering items into their state (and local) fairs and I will think “I wish we had a state fair” and then the other night I had a total blond moment. We do have a state fair – it’s just not called that, it’s called a farm show. <sigh>I’m such a blonde (no, really I am). The Pennsylvania State Farm Show has been around a long time and...

The skirt that became a bag

It’s finished! I think it turned out well. It’s not perfect but I like it. You may remember that this was a skirt I had picked up at Salvation Army. Size 8 – quite short. NOT going to fit me. Ever. But I really liked the fabric and thought it would make a great fall bag –and indeed it does! I used it today to carry my knitting to homeschool art and gym classes and tonight for RCIA. My...

What would she say?

Today in the Church year we celebrate the Memorial of St. Teresa of Ávila. St. Teresa has the rare distinction of being named a “doctor” of the Church. A Doctor of the Church (Latin doctor, teacher, from Latin docere, to teach) is a saint from whose writings the whole Christian Church is held to have derived great advantage and to whom “eminent learning” and “great...

It’s here!

The eagerly anticipated (in this house anyway) Illuminated Ink coloring contest! The theme: The Communion of Saints Now, if we could just beat those Braga-Henebry kids. . . and...